Tech blog Of Zen and Computing describes how to use the free command line program ImageMagick to convert a set of images from one file format to another (like JPGs to PNGs). You can do this same sort ...

I've got a bunch of PICT files that I'm trying to convert to jpg (or any other format, really). I looked at the list of formats supported by ImageMagick and it appears that PICTs are ...

In my last article, I had some fun looking at the children's game of rock, paper, scissors, writing a simple simulator and finding out that some strategies are better than others. Yes, I used ...

I've spent a lot of time in my column talking about text processing and analysis, with the basic assumption that if you're using the command line, you're focused on text. That's not always true, and ...